Ms Lean Lee

Information

Date

19 March 2014

Interviewed by

Scarlet Ma

Language

English

Audio Edited by

Ben Fielden

Venue

East London Chinese Community Centre

Lean Lee was born in Malaysia and came to the UK in the mid 1970's to study. She completed her first degree at City University, London, majoring in Industrial Chemistry. After she had her first child she went to complete her PhD at Imperial College. The research was sponsored by the Science and Engineering Council in collaboration with British Gas. After completing her PhD she was employed by British Gas, working on High Efficiency Boilers (Condensing boilers) projects at Watson House Research Station in Fulham. When the research centre moved to Loughborough, Lean joined Eastern Gas (Transco) based in Hertford as a Chemist analysing contaminated soil, detecting gas leaks etc. Later she moved to monitoring emissions from gas turbines in compressor stations all around the UK. Her work as a chemist entailed travelling nationwide and sometime working days or weeks away from home.

Lean left National Grid (Transco) and took early retirement when the company decided to close the laboratory in Hertford and moved to Warwick. She did not want to move with the company as her children were still at school and her husband was working in London.

Since retirement she became involved in running the East London Chinese Community and assisting with their activities. Currently she spends her free times growing vegetables in her local allotment, volunteering at her local charity shop and at times involved with various Chinese community activities.

資料

日期

2014年3月19日

採訪

馬曉芯

語言

英語

音頻編輯

田源

地點

東倫敦華人社區中心

Lean Lee生於馬來西亞，於七十年代中來到英國，在倫敦城市大學完成工業化學學士課程。Lean的長女出生後，她繼續進修，修讀帝國學院的博士課程，其研究得到科學與工程委員會（Science and Engineering Council）及英國天然氣公司的資助。畢業後，Lean獲英國天然氣公司聘用，在Fulham的研究站Watson House Research House負責高效鍋爐（冷凝式鍋爐）的項目。後來當研究站遷到Loughborough後，她就轉到位於Hertford的東方天然氣（輸電）公司（Eastern Gas (Transco)）當化學專家，分析污染土壤和探測氣體洩漏。其後，她則負責檢測全英國的壓氣機站中燃氣輪機的氣體排放，由於她的工作關係，她走遍全國很多地方，有時需時在外工作數天，甚至數星期。